Orin Thomas

Orin Thomas is an MVP, an MCT and has a string of Microsoft MCSE and MCITP certifications. He has written more than 30 books for Microsoft Press on topics including Windows Server, Windows Client, System Center, Exchange Server, Security, and SQL Server. He is an author at PluralSight and is a contributing editor at Windows IT Pro magazine. He has been working in IT since the early 1990's and regularly speaks at conferences in Australia and around the world. Orin founded and runs the Melbourne System Center, Security, and Infrastructure Group. Follow him on twitter to check out his most recent tweets.

I just got back from delivering sessions at Ignite New Zealand. During each session I polled the audience to learn how many were still running Server 2003 in some capacity in their organization. Each time I asked...

It may shock you, even surprise you, but a large number of organizations that are still on Windows Server 2003 after end of support for the operating system expired still don’t have any firm plans on how and...

The uncomfortable truth is that a large number of computers running Windows Server, many millions in fact, are still humming away in server rooms and datacenters more than a month after support for the operating...

Windows Server 2016 involves technologies that require a substantial adjustment in the way that we do IT. NanoServer. Windows Server and Hyper-V Containers. An even greater reliance on technologies such as PowerShell...

Surveys have shown that these days the average IT Pro is in their early 40’s, is married, has kids in school, and has been in the industry around 15 years. That’s very different to what it was like when I...

One of the interesting questions around why so many organizations hadn’t migrated from Windows Server 2003 by the time the end of support date rolled around was “what on earth made people stick with a 12...

One of the things that was most interesting about Windows Server 2003 End Of Support was the number of organizations still running the operating system as Microsoft’s support window expired. One of the many...